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Today, I got this handsome image from the folks at National Leather Association International. I’ve won their John Preston Short Fiction Award once, for “Kidnapping Chris,” which is included in my 2017 collection, Consent, and I’ve won their Pauline Reage Novel Award twice, for Fog and Salvation. This time, I

Hey, folks, to celebrate the fact that I just won the Cynthia Slater Nonfiction Article Award, Lethe Press is selling the Kindle edition of _Consent_ for 99 cents! My winning essay, “In Defense of Erotica,” serves as the introduction to _Consent_. Please share this news! The link is below:

I’m pleased to report that I have a couple of new publications this Fall 2018. Gents: Steamy Stories from the Age of Steam is edited by Matthew Bright and published by Unzipped Books/Lethe Press. It contains a short story of mine, “London 1888,” which features my vampire alter ego, Derek

Howdy from Palm Springs! I’m out here enjoying the area (most especially the restaurants) while my husbear works in Moreno Valley, California. I have so many writer friends that I could easily read nothing else but their latest publications. This summer I gobbled up several novels by Julia Watts, with

We finally have a cover for the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ writing from Appalachia! Here it is! The anthology will be released April 2019. If you’d like to pre-order the book, here’s the link: https://wvupressonline.com/node/775.

The anthology I’ve been co-editing with Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, is off to the editorial department at West Virginia University Press, and I’ve recently composed an introduction and a Suggested Reading List for a new edition of one of my books of poems (details to come),

Mark Ward at Impossible Archetype kindly published “Krispy Kreme Fantasia,” my poem about Viggo Mortensen, back in March 2017, but now he’s released it with its own URL. I wrote this poem a long time ago, back when my husband John and I had a house in Fort Hill, a

Great News! Jeff has a new poem, “Redneck Bouquet,” published Chelsea Station Magazine. Here is a little sample: …inked into my left forearm. Scotland’s echo, Nemo me inpune lacessit, or, in Scots, Wha daur meddle wi me? or, in hillbilly Nobody fucks with me… Jeff has published a lot of

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Great news! I can finally announce that Julia Watts and I are co-editing the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ Appalachian fiction and poetry. It’ll be published by West Virginia University Press in Spring 2019. Here’s the background story. In April 2017, while I was in Morgantown to give a reading at